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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Catherine the Great age 53
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 28
King - France
Frederick the Great age 70
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 44
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 41
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 57
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 70
Emperor - Imperial China
Emperor Kōkaku age 10
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III age 56
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 29
King - Joseon
Tekle Giyorgis I age 31
Emperor - Ethiopia
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 45
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Benjamin Lincoln age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 31
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 4 months
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 43
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Harrison V age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Adams age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 48
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 51
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 47
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 56
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 49
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 66
King - Spain
Gustav III age 36
King - Sweden
George Washington age 50
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 13
Ludwig van Beethoven age 11
Thomas Jefferson age 39
Adam Smith age 59
Benjamin Franklin age 76
Jane Austen age 6
James Madison age 31
John Quincy Adams age 15
Andrew Jackson age 15
James Watt age 46
James Monroe age 24
William Henry Harrison age 9
Marie Antoinette age 26
Maximilien Robespierre age 24
Edward Jenner age 33
Alexander I of Russia age 4
Horatio Nelson age 23
Alexander Hamilton age 27
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 15
William IV age 17
Klemens von Metternich age 9
Paul I of Russia age 27
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 28
George IV age 20
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 117
Georges Danton age 22
Louis XVIII age 26
José de San Martín age 4
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 14
Charles X of France age 24
Louis Philippe I age 8
Charles XIV John age 19
Aaron Burr age 26
Selim III age 20
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 19
Joachim Murat age 15
Marquis de Lafayette age 24
George Stephenson age 1
John C. Calhoun age 5 months
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 13
Mikhail Kutuzov age 36
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 35
Joseph Bonaparte age 14
George Canning age 12
Toussaint Louverture age 39
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 14
Mustafa IV age 2
Samuel Adams age 59
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 34
Charles IV of Spain age 33
William I of the Netherlands age 9
Frederick William III of Prussia age 12
Lazare Carnot age 29
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 29
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 23
Bernardo O'Higgins age 3
Michel Ney age 13
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 9
Elbridge Gerry age 38
Daniel D. Tompkins age 8
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 39
William Wilberforce age 22
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 52
John Jay age 36
Charles XIII age 33
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 6
Richard Mentor Johnson age 1
Frederick William II of Prussia age 37
Frederick VI of Denmark age 14
Pyotr Bagration age 17
Gustav IV Adolf age 3
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 20
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 31
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 3
Jean Lannes age 13
Daniel Webster age 7 months
Tecumseh age 14
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 12
André Masséna age 24
Marie Thérèse of France age 3
Francisco de Miranda age 32
Maria Carolina of Austria age 30
Charles Cornwallis age 43
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 10
Vicente Guerrero age 0 months
Józef Poniatowski age 19
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 6
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 28
Eugène de Beauharnais age 11 months
Henry Clay age 5
Frederick North, Lord North age 50
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 44
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 13
Jiaqing Emperor age 21
Auguste de Marmont age 8
Benedict Arnold age 41
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 22
Charles Felix age 17
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 3
Rama II age 14
Charles Emmanuel IV age 31
Edward, Duke of Kent age 14
Victor Emmanuel I age 23
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 19
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 4
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 3 months
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 16
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 22
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 3
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 16
Benjamin Rush age 36
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 10
Bernardino Rivadavia age 2
William I of Württemberg age 10 months
Frederick I of Württemberg age 27
William V, Prince of Orange age 34
Maria Luisa of Spain age 36
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 20
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 29
Nicolas Oudinot age 15
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 13
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 14
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 40
Anthony, King of Saxony age 26
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 15
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 11
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 17
Charles François Dumouriez age 43
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 19
Edmund Randolph age 29
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 22
Pierre Augereau age 24
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 46
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 18
John Dickinson age 50
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 53
John Paul Jones age 35
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 13
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 18
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 15
Louis Desaix age 14
Karl Nesselrode age 1
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 7
Nathanael Greene age 40
Roger Sherman age 61
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 43
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 36
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 25
Ferdinand I of Parma age 31